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wxBase README
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NB: this file applies to wxBase library only. If you are using a GUI version
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of wxWidgets, please refer to the documentation in the appropriate
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subdirectory (msw, gtk, motif &c).
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Welcome to wxBase!
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0. Introduction
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wxBase is the library providing most of the non-GUI classes of the wxWidgets
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cross-platform C++ framework. wxBase has some generic classes such as yet
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another C++ string class, typesafe dynamic arrays, hashes and lists and, more
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excitingly, wxDateTime -- a very flexible and powerful class for manipulating
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the dates in the range of 580 million years with up to millisecond precision.
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Another useful class not present in the standard C++ library is wxRegEx which
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allows you to use regular expressions for string matching and replacing.
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There are also classes for writing portable programs in C++ painlessly which
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encapsulate things like files (and their names), directories, processes,
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threads, sockets and much more. Some of the other utility classes allow you to
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parse the command line, limit the number of instances of your program
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executing simultaneously (portably!) and so on.
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1. Requirements and supported platforms
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wxBase can be compiled and used under Win32, mostly any modern Unix system
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(including OS X), VMS and BeOS (this release couldn't be tested under
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these platforms so you might encounter some problems but they should be easy
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to solve -- please contact us in this case!)
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It is written without using any modern C++ features (such as templates,
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exceptions, namespaces) for maximal portability and so you shouldn't have
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problems compiling it with any C++ compiler at all. However, we only provide
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the project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and make files for Borland C++
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for Win32 (any contributions are welcome!) -- but our Unix makefiles should
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work with any compiler.
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2. Installing under Win32
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Please note that wxBase can be compiled in different configurations under
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Win32: as a static or shared library, in debug or release mode and in ANSI
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or Unicode mode for a total of 8 possibilities.
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a) Using Visual C++ 6.0
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Simply open the build/msw/wx_base.dsp file in MSDEV and build it. When it is
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done you can also open samples/console/console.dsp project and build it as
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well.
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b) Cygwin
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Please refer to the Unix section below.
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Note that gcc's precompiled headers do not work on current versions of
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Cygwin. If your version of Cygwin is affected you will need to use the
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--disable-precomp-headers configure option.
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c) Borland
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Please refer to the docs/msw/install.txt. The console sample compiles and
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runs but does not pass all tests.
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d) Other compilers
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Unfortunately we don't have the makefiles for any other compilers yet.
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Please contact us if you would like to help us with creating one for the
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compiler you use.
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3. Installing under Unix/BeOS
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Please note that GNU make may be required to build wxBase, please use it if
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you get any errors from the native Unix make.
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The recommended way to build wxBase is:
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% cd ..../wxWidgets
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% mkdir base-release # or any other directory of your liking
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% cd base-release
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% ../configure --disable-gui
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# ignore the error messages about missing samples
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% make
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% make install
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You can also do:
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% mkdir base-debug
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% cd base-debug
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% ../configure --disable-gui --enable-debug
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% make
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To build the sample then cd to samples/console and make there.
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4. Documentation and support
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The console sample provided with this distribution tests most (but not all)
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wxBase classes. It doesn't do anything useful per itself but you may want to
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look at its code to see examples of usage of the class you are interested in.
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There is no separate documentation for wxBase, please refer to wxWidgets
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documentation instead.
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Support for wxBase is available from the same places as for wxWidgets itself,
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namely:
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* Website: https://www.wxwidgets.org/
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* Mailing Lists: https://www.wxwidgets.org/support/mailing-lists/
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Hope you will find wxBase useful!
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Vadim Zeitlin
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